Hey guys and gals and genderless amorphous slimes of Drabble Land. I'm working on a hush hush art project as a part of a not too distant future Drabblecast merch push. It will involve some 50 odd small pieces of art, and already includes artwork created for the Mega-Beast competition. With this in mind, comes my query...

Can you guys recall interesting, funny, but not horrifyingly complex, characters, creatures, and noteworthy imagery from our collective drabble past?

I'm composing a list, and hope to rush through before my hush hush deadline. The ideas that sprang to my mind were:

The final scene from Floating Over Time would be awesome, although it might be overly complex. An old man in waders standing on the bottom of a lake, reaching out to an angelic girl whose skin bears a vague suggestion of circuit boards. Gorgeous and haunting.

Mr. Tweedy wrote:The final scene from Floating Over Time would be awesome, although it might be overly complex. An old man in waders standing on the bottom of a lake, reaching out to an angelic girl whose skin bears a vague suggestion of circuit boards. Gorgeous and haunting.

That would be excellent, but it wouldn't really fit the format. I feel like that has to be a full blown water-color under glass to do it any justice. Knowing my skill with said paints, no justice would be done at all.

My memory is failing me, what is the woodpecker from?

Digging most of these suggestions tbaker. Don't know if I can pull off a liquefied cat. If I could, after a while I think no one would want to look at it, so it doesn't serve the mystery format.

Have you had any luck emulating watercolor with PhotoShop? I was playing around with the idea the other day, and you can get some really interesting blends using semi-transparent layers and layer effects. (I'm hoping to do a lot more original artwork once I formally ditch the SSDJ. There's so much stuff I've barely touched.)

The woodpecker is from a Bbardle. Never take a pecker from his shine. No never take a pecker from his old moonshine!

Yeah, been to one end of photoshop and back, tried a little of everything, cs 2 and all versions prior. I did some stuff in college with expressive, blended layers, and lots of gradients. One of my fav techniques was using ink on watercolor paper, scanning it in, separating to layers, changing its color artificially and then recombining. As far as how I generally 'paint' though, I don't go as loose as I think a virtual reproduction of water colors would dictate. I like to set down a pencil outline, then color around it, 'burning' and 'dodging' and paint-brushing with blending and layer effect styles as I go.

Ah, so its from a bardle. The lyric escaped me. I'll add that image to my list.

Anybody remember the name of that alien that judged the sentient beings of earth and the universe a few episodes back? Did he have a reasonably detailed description of appearance, or was he completely abstract?

Could still use five more image ideas to meet my number goal. Single subject, relatively simple, any more concepts floating around in people's heads? I recall some hogzilla coverage earlier in the year, I think I'll sneak him in to the queue.